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(ARGENTINA.) Falkner, Thomas.
A Description of Patagonia, and the Adjoining
Parts of South America.
[4], iv, 144 pages. 4to, contemporary calf, minor wear; repaired
closed tear on final leaf; early inscriptions on title page.
Hereford: Pugh, 1774
[3,000/4,000]
FIRST EDITION
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Originally an English medical student, Falkner converted to Catholicism in
Buenos Aires, and spent more than three decades as a Jesuit missionary in Paraguay and
Patagonia. The first map features a cartouche illustrated with “the great Cacique Cangapol,”
discussed on page 26: “I have endeavored to draw his likeness as well as I could by memory. . . .
He must have been seven feet and some inches in height; because, on tiptoe, I could not reach to
the top of his head.” Falkner disputes, however, the existence of a race of giants in Patagonia.
Field 521; Palau 86485; Sabin 23734.
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(ARGENTINA.) Lozano, Pedro.
Carta . . . escrita al P. Bruno Morales . . .
existente en esta Corte de Madrid.
39 pages. 4to, modern
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calf; tightly trimmed with
loss of some page numbers, moderate dampstaining, last 2 leaves worn with loss of a few
letters.
[Madrid, 1747?]
[1,500/2,500]
A letter written by a Jesuit missionary in Cordoba (now Argentina) in 1747. “Describes José
de Quiroga’s expedition to the Patagonian coasts”—European Americana 747/105 (this
edition). Alternate edition, priority undetermined. Both editions were issued without a title
page; Sabin speculates that it was likely “printed for private distribution only.” Medina, BHA
7227; Palau 142976; Sabin 42597 (all re the 56-page edition); neither edition known at
auction since 1968.
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